L. E. Modesitt Quotes

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L. E. Modesitt

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Birds
  • Racing

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• To be perfectly frank, I really do not.

  

  Bruce Lee

• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Truth
  • Powerful

• I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

  

  Kehlani
  • Up
  • Giving

• A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Weapons
  • Collection

• Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!

  

  Adam West
  • Sun

• Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles especially strong. Job growth has bolstered household income, and lower energy prices have left consumers with more to spend on other goods and services.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Energy

• The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

  

  James Broughton
  • Vision

• I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

  

  Amanda Tapping
  • Character

• I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Father

• Just because we're on USA, we didn't necessarily have to be the USA brand.

  

  Lennon Parham

• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up

• When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Temptation
  • Untruth

• Well, we find the Toronto blessing in every city we go to. I believe that it is a blessing indeed. ... the Toronto blessing has to be kicked out of the church - kicked out of the church into the world! If in each neighbourhood prayerhouse, there is a manifestation of Jesus, which I believe in its purest form that's what the Toronto blessing is, then the entire neighbourhood will flock to that house.

  

  Ed Silvoso
  • Church
  • I Believe
  • Blessing

• ...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your Hilary Clinton's situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Lies
  • Deception

• Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Deception